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Marilyn Robinson reviews Flannery O’Connor’s Prayer Journal for The New York Times. She writes, “The girl beside you on the bus or behind you in line might well be pondering a great and turbulent tradition of thought and belief.” Read the whole thing here: The Believer

Bruce Springsteen was raised Catholic. He’s said of his roots, “It’s like Al Pacino in ‘The Godfather’: I try to get out, but they pull you back in! Once a Catholic, always a Catholic.” Influenced by Flannery O’Connor, and the imagery of his Catholic childhood, Springsteen writes songs about sin, temptation, forgiveness, life, death, hope, love, brotherhood, and injustice. His songs describe a world that is both broken and redeemed. We recommend “Mary Queen of Arkansas” from his first album. Listen to it after the jump:

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God has scattered the proud in their conceit. He has cast down the mighty from their thrones, and has lifted up the lowly. He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty.— Mary the Mother of God

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